VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 468 550
Rank change year-on-year -47 +82 +139
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 90 61 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.66% 0.67% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 41 32
10th Percentile £423 £500 £310
25th Percentile £466 £513 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £467
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +23.17% -11.08%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £556
90th Percentile £643 £700 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £575 £431
% change year-on-year -6.52% +33.35% -17.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.38 - -
90th Percentile £96.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,589 9,168 13,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.86% 29.61% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,968 5,590 8,404
10th Percentile £325 £296 £295
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £723 £720 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £532
% change year-on-year -0.10% -5.92% +0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 432 960
10th Percentile £15.75 £19.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -15.00% +1.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.97% +2.62%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -73 62 £550 -4.35% 8
Work from Home +8 43 £532 -5.42% 9
UK excluding London -84 34 £538 -6.52% 8
London -21 25 £575 +4.55% 4
North of England -49 12 £458 -10.63% 3
North West -23 11 £460 -12.38% 2
South East -36 11 £563 -8.54% 2
South West -37 5 £690 +20.00%
Midlands -53 3 £475 -32.14%
Scotland - 3 £450 - 1
West Midlands -49 2 £450 -35.71%
Yorkshire -57 1 £425 -15.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £563 - 1

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (7.78%) AWS
3 6 (6.67%) Nutanix
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.22%) IaaS
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) Firewall
1 11 (12.22%) Software-Defined Networking
2 9 (10.00%) VSAN
3 8 (8.89%) DHCP
3 8 (8.89%) DNS
4 5 (5.56%) SAN
4 5 (5.56%) VPN
5 4 (4.44%) Network Security
5 4 (4.44%) PCoIP
6 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.22%) IPFIX
7 2 (2.22%) VXLAN
7 2 (2.22%) WAN
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.11%) DMVPN
8 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.11%) NAS
8 1 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (4.44%) JIRA
2 3 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.33%) Git
2 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.44%) Finance
5 2 (2.22%) Banking
5 2 (2.22%) Electronics
5 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.22%) Marketing
5 2 (2.22%) Military
5 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.11%) Advertising
6 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 35 (38.89%) Consultant
2 33 (36.67%) VMware Consultant
3 19 (21.11%) VMware Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Principal Consultant
5 10 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
6 9 (10.00%) VMware Specialist
7 8 (8.89%) Architect
7 8 (8.89%) Hyper-V Consultant
7 8 (8.89%) PowerShell Consultant
7 8 (8.89%) PowerShell Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Wintel Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Senior
9 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) VMware Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 2 (2.22%) Data Consultant
12 2 (2.22%) Exchange Consultant
12 2 (2.22%) Migration Consultant
12 2 (2.22%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Replication
2 11 (12.22%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.89%) Clustering
4 6 (6.67%) PKI
5 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.22%) NVMe
6 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.22%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.22%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Windows
2 15 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.89%) Linux
4 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (14.44%) Disaster Recovery
1 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (13.33%) Migration
3 11 (12.22%) Network Virtualisation
4 10 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (11.11%) High Availability
5 9 (10.00%) Agile
6 6 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (6.67%) ITIL
6 6 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (5.56%) Cloud Security
7 5 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (5.56%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 5 (5.56%) Runbook
7 5 (5.56%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 67 (74.44%) PowerShell
2 59 (65.56%) Python
3 43 (47.78%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.56%) Bash
5 4 (4.44%) SQL
6 2 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 64 (71.11%) Security Cleared
2 56 (62.22%) SC Cleared
3 23 (25.56%) VCAP
4 14 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (14.44%) MCSA
5 13 (14.44%) MCSE
6 4 (4.44%) CCNP
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.33%) Degree
7 3 (3.33%) OCA
7 3 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.22%) GSEC
8 2 (2.22%) HP ASE
8 2 (2.22%) NCDA
8 2 (2.22%) VCDX
8 2 (2.22%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 44 (48.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (32.22%) vSphere
3 18 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (16.67%) VMware NSX
5 13 (14.44%) Hyper-V
6 12 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (11.11%) Active Directory
8 4 (4.44%) Docker
9 2 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.11%) Firmware
10 1 (1.11%) KVM
10 1 (1.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 48 (53.33%) vRealize
2 22 (24.44%) Ansible
3 17 (18.89%) vCenter Server
4 9 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
4 9 (10.00%) Terraform
5 6 (6.67%) PowerCLI
6 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.44%) vMotion
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.22%) Grafana
9 1 (1.11%) SCOM
9 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 90 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (24.44%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.33%) Cisco
4 4 (4.44%) Dell
4 4 (4.44%) Veeam
5 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.22%) 3PAR
6 2 (2.22%) Brocade
6 2 (2.22%) Citrix
6 2 (2.22%) Commvault
6 2 (2.22%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.22%) NetApp
6 2 (2.22%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (2.22%) ProCurve
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) F5
7 1 (1.11%) Isilon
7 1 (1.11%) Juniper